ENT: Rajiin

         I am honestly shocked it took ENT this long to get to slave women. Hell, TOS got there in the pilot so they are really slacking off. And of course in this case the woman is actually there to trick them or something, but she is presumably also a slave. Which of course raises the question why did she keep helping the Xindi, it was pretty clear Archer was down to help her no matter what, so why not just betray them? Maybe they had something over her, but if so, maybe have that come up at some point? But no, of course not. This also seems like a pretty extreme way to get a bioscan of a human. They wander around markets bumping into people all the time and literally have no idea what most Xindi species look like. And they would have even less of an idea if they didn't go and board Enterprise to get the bioscan info.
         We open with the council of Xindi twisting their mustaches as Enterprise continues into the expanse. Speaking of, they have arrived at a trade planet where they have a hot tip on a guy who can show them how to make the material needed to shield against anomalies and also info on the Xindi. Somewhere in there Trip gets another erotic massage as well. The shield goop turns out to be super dangerous to make so Trip and T'Pol get the job. The Xindi tip sends them to a slave trader who did business with them and one girl catches Archers eye. But of course he isn't going to pay, instead he helps her escape in what is pretty obviously a set up. She sets out to seduce Archer and he isn't exactly opposed to it. She does some sort of psychic bond or something and sees through his skin and then he passes out. She ends up fighting T'Pol for some reason, mostly because it is hot I suspect, and then heads to the transporter room where she is captured, but not before calling her boss. Two ships of Xindi show up and board Enterprise. They are mostly resistant to the human weapons but one reptile is killed. The take Rajiin and escape to go back to the mustache twirling. Back on Enterprise they at least got the consolation prize of a dead Xindi to study.

         Review: Not an awful episode, but pretty bland as is the case for so much of ENT. Well, the better part of ENT at least. Glad to see they are continuing to move the story forward.

4 out of 10